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**VIAGRA-VIAGRA** · 10-01-2010, 09:47 PM

Well, it depends on the fund. If your parish takes a collection for a mission run by nuns to help feed and educate an African village, you can bet those nuns aren't spending that money on anything but the African village. If the money is going to the Archdiocese, you run into "administrative costs". Although the Catholic Standard and Times published the ADP's annual budget for the past year down to the dollar with where the money goes and I don't remember reading anything out of the ordinary (you had education, aid, etc). I'm no fan of the AD because too often it comes off sounding more like a business than a source of Christ (that doesn't apply to individual parishes or missions). But I can only criticize based on what I know.

Right, parishes generally use their donations for legitimate purposes. It's the Archdiocese itself that's the problem, and I don't trust anything the Catholic Standard & Times says on the matter; they're basically an AD PR outfit, so it's not like they're ever going to publicly oppose them on anything.

There was a really good independent piece published by the National Catholic Reporter some years back. I'll have to see if I can find it. It painstakingly detailed the numerous ways Bevilaqua pissed away millions on trivial, overly ostentatious and / or incredibly self-serving things (like his own residence).

10-01-2010, 09:47 PM	#8
VIAGRA-VIAGRA Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 528 Senior Member	Well, it depends on the fund. If your parish takes a collection for a mission run by nuns to help feed and educate an African village, you can bet those nuns aren't spending that money on anything but the African village. If the money is going to the Archdiocese, you run into "administrative costs". Although the Catholic Standard and Times published the ADP's annual budget for the past year down to the dollar with where the money goes and I don't remember reading anything out of the ordinary (you had education, aid, etc). I'm no fan of the AD because too often it comes off sounding more like a business than a source of Christ (that doesn't apply to individual parishes or missions). But I can only criticize based on what I know. Right, parishes generally use their donations for legitimate purposes. It's the Archdiocese itself that's the problem, and I don't trust anything the Catholic Standard & Times says on the matter; they're basically an AD PR outfit, so it's not like they're ever going to publicly oppose them on anything. There was a really good independent piece published by the National Catholic Reporter some years back. I'll have to see if I can find it. It painstakingly detailed the numerous ways Bevilaqua pissed away millions on trivial, overly ostentatious and / or incredibly self-serving things (like his own residence).
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